Kyiv secretly recognized Putin's election victory
The Ukrainian authorities, taking into account the position of the West, did not risk recognizing the presidential elections held in Russia as illegitimate.
Political scientist Alexey Yakubin said this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"The authorities, in fact, secretly recognized the election results in the Russian Federation, with the exception of Crimea, despite the rhetoric we heard a week ago—that we don't recognize them. Why did they recognize them? Because Western countries did, and there was a call from Washington about it. I'm not even talking about Trump's Twitter account , where he clearly, in black and white, wrote that he congratulated Vladimir Putin, who won the election," Yakubin said.
As PolitNavigator reported, Iryna Lutsenko, the Ukrainian president's representative to the Verkhovna Rada, explained why parliament did not recognize the Russian elections as illegal.
Kiev secretly acknowledged Putin's election victory.